My first exposure to European painting was through the plates of reproductions in books that my parents had bought. My parents were not wealthy, these foreign books were not cheap in the 1960s, and we...

When Covid-19 was identified, not much was known about the disease. There is still no known treatment or antidote. Two things, however, triggered sharp reactions from the medical community. One was th...

The Plot Against America is an unsettling mini-series based on a novel written by the great American writer, Philip Roth. Roth imagines the history of the United States of America taking an alternativ...

In an editorial on April 3, the Financial Times of London wrote: “Radical reforms — reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades — will need to be put on the table. Governm...

Since August 5, I have been racked with one thought: how did our nation lose its soul to such an extent that so many celebrate the humiliation and misery of the people in Kashmir almost as if they wer...

Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, often referred to as just ‘Quai Branly’ or ‘Branly’, is almost right next to the Eiffel Tower. Approaching it as an Indian and a Calcuttan, you find yours...

The failure of Vikram, the landing vehicle of Chandrayaan 2, to make a soft landing on the dark side of the moon was a frustrating end to an otherwise remarkably successful Isro mission. From the dela...

It’s as outlandish for a British prime minister to try to silence and suppress what John Bright eulogized as the “Mother of Parliaments” as it would be for Narendra Modi to promote Muslim suprem...

India and the United Kingdom enjoy an unstated special relationship. Regardless of the unending sniper attacks on the lingering colonial mindset of a section of the British Establishment and the exasp...

The deaths of Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor inside a day of each other set up an unexpected but instructive contrast. My first response to the news of Rishi’s passing was just ‘Bobby!’ For my co...